Široka Bara is an elongated bog, located in the western section of the floodplain of the Pančevački Rit, one of the remaining undried patches within it.

It is located on the altitude of 78 meters, and apart from the Danube as its western border, it is connected to the canals of Vrbovski (east and north) and Veliki (south-east).

Settlement of Široka Bara is actually a sub-settlement of Vrbovski (and, as such, of Padinska Skela) located in the northern, Banat section of the municipality of Palilula (Pančevački Rit), 22 kilometers north of downtown Belgrade.

The settlement is located 5 kilometers west of Padinska Skela and the Zrenjaninski put road which connects Belgrade with the town of Zrenjanin, in Vojvodina.

As farms were becoming more modern and communal infrastructure of the settlement was neglected for decades, population moved out leaving only a dozen of inhabited houses in the early 2000s.